Montreal Launch: I'm Not Myself At All

Thomas More Institute Montreal, 3405 Atwater Avenue, Montreal, QC
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Join Kristina Huneault for the Montreal launch of I'm Not Myself at All: Women, Art, and Subjectivity in Canada. The event will be held at the Thomas More Institute and will feature an interview with the author, followed by Q&A and light refreshments.

ABOUT THE BOOK

In this study of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art in Canada, Kristina Huneault offers a meditation on the strictures of identity and an exploration of forces that unsettle and realign the self. Looking closely at individual artists and works, Huneault combines formal analysis with archival research and philosophical inquiry, building nuanced readings of objects that range from the canonical to the largely unknown. Whether in miniature portraits or genre paintings, botanical drawings or baskets, women artists reckoned with constraints that limited understandings of themselves and others. They also forged creative alternatives. At times identity features in women’s artistic work as a failed project; at other times it marks a boundary beyond which they were able to expand, explore, and exult.

Kristina Huneault is a professor of art history at Concordia University, a founder of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, and co-editor, with Janice Anderson, of Rethinking Professionalism: Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970.

"I'm Not Myself at All offers fascinating discussions of the work of many previously unknown or overlooked artists, while making a significant contribution to the interpretation of better-known artists such as Emily Carr, Helen McNicoll, and Frances Anne Hopkins. Huneault brings together the fruits of a wide range of newly accessible international research with a rigorous theoretical inquiry into the limits and possibilities of interpretation." Gerta Moray, University of Guelph